New Zealand has long been a favourite with those wishing to start a new life overseas: this book gives all the information necessary to make the idea of moving to the antipodes a reality. The book is illustrated with first-hand accounts from people living in New Zealand & is full colour, with numerous helpful maps & photographs. Set out to be easily accessible, each chapter guides you through the practicalities of a move to New Zeal&, from setting up home to finding a job or setting up a business. In particular, it gives advice on renting accommodation, opening the right bank account, finding your ideal home & making the most of your leisure time. There is also easy access to urgent information such as emergency phone numbers, laws & regulations & healthcare advice. The employment section of the book covers vital information, such as information on business etiquette, the skills & trades most in dem&, permanent, seasonal & temporary work, salaries, working hours & holidays, trade unions & contracts, starting or buying your own business & sources of advice & assistance. ...

Vacation Work Publishing's Live & Work in Portugal provides essential information on the customs, regulations, laws & way of life that those who move to this country will encounter. Including information on how to secure residency & the best ways to gain a competitive mortgage, this is an indispensable guide for all newcomers. The guide features full details on how to find suitable employment, including permanent & seasonal work, government incentives & coverage of those industries where particular skills are needed. The guide also

Includes:: a regional employment guide & directories of major employers.

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Millions of tourists have visited Spain & wondered if there is any way they could move there to work or retire; the country remains the most popular country for British people looking for a home abroad. This fully revised & updated fifth edition of Live & Work in Spain provides an indispensable source of knowledge for everyone interested in living or working temporarily or permanently, starting a business or just buying a holiday home there. The book is illustrated with first-hand accounts from people living in Spain & is full colour, with numerous helpful maps & photographs. Set out to be easily accessible, each chapter guides you through the practicalities of a move to Spain, from setting up home to finding a job or setting up a business. In particular, it gives advice on renting accommodation, opening the right bank account, finding your ideal home & making the most of your leisure time. There is also easy access to urgent information such as emergency phone numbers, laws & regulations & healthcare advice. The employment section of the book covers vital information, such as information on business etiquette, the skills & trades most in dem&, permanent, seasonal & temporary work, salaries, working hours & holidays, trade unions & contracts, starting or buying your own business & sources of advice & assistance. Excellent series, The Times ...

This book is a complete guide to daily life in the USA, from finding a home to finding work or even setting up a business from scratch. Live & Work in the USA is illustrated with first-hand accounts from people living in America & is full colour, with numerous maps & photographs throughout. Set out to be easily accessible, each chapter guides you through the practicalities of a move to the USA, from setting up home to finding a job. In particular, it gives advice on renting accommodation, opening the right bank account, finding your ideal home, obtaining a competitive mortgage & making the most of your leisure time. There is also easy access to urgent information such as emergency phone numbers, laws & regulations & healthcare advice. The employment section of the book covers vital information, such as the skills & trades most in dem&, permanent, seasonal & temporary work, salaries, working hours & holidays, trade unions & contracts, starting or buying your own business & sources of advice & assistance. ...

In 1982, aged twenty-three, Simon Parkes paid GBP1 for a virtually derelict building in Brixton. Over the next fifteen years he turned it into Britain`s most iconic music venue. & now he`s telling his story: full of fond
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- reminiscences of the famous musicians who played at the venue, including Robert Plant & Jimmy Page, Lou Reed, The Ramones, New Order, the Beastie Boys & The Smiths. This is about one man`s burning desire for success against the odds, his passion for live music & the excitement of those wilderness years, a far cry from the corporate world that controls the scene today. From rock-star debauchery & mixing it up with Brixton gangsters to putting on the first legal raves in the UK & countless backroom business deals, this is the story of how to succeed in business with no experience & fulfil your teenage fantasies.

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Live Lagom is a practical lifestyle guide based on the Swedish philosophy of Lagom. Meaning ”just the right amount”, the concept can be applied to every aspect of your life & promotes balance. At a time when we are all concerned with saving money, feeling less stressed, acting more consciously towards our environment as well as creating our ideal homes & careers, Lagom offers an insight into how one of the happiest & most satisfied countries & cultures achieves this balance in day to day life. With chapters covering Home, Work & Health, the practice of Lagom is explained in traditional & practical terms, &

Includes:: advice & tips on how to find your happy medium. This is the book to make you enjoy the moment, & not only accept what you already have but also to make the most of it.

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Do you want to spend more quality time with the people, ideas & passions that matter most in your life? In an age of weightless, disposable digital products, here`s a book to help you live more fully: that invites you to explore your beliefs, ambitions, friendships, memories & flights of imagination. A mixture of inspiration & reflection, it`s unlike anything else you`ve seen before: a beautifully crafted object blending text & design into something for you to make truly your own. Downloading a million digital books won`t make you happy
- but carrying this one with you might.
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In LIVE TO RIDE, the extraordinary writing of Wayne Johnson makes readers feel like participants, not just observers: whether it's roaring down an empty highway at an insane speed on two wheels, hopping on for a few mindboggling loops of motocross, or joining in the rolling thunder of a veritable outlaw motorcycle club, Wayne has done it all himself & brings us along for the ride. As he says, Here you are in it, this landscape, not just passing through. This book is all about the adventure of riding as well as the colorful groups & fascinating that history that goes along with it. Some topics covered include: the history of the motorcycle, beginning more than a hundred years ago when it evolved from the bicycle; what it means to ride a Ducati vs. BMW; inside looks at diverse racing venues like the vertigo-inspiring Widowmaker Hillclimb & the fastest land racing in the world at the Bonneville Salt Flats; & what biker clubs are, with first hand accounts of Wayne's own wild rides with an outlaw club.LIVE TO RIDE is sure to touch many kinds of readers: those who have ever wondered what it's like to hop on a motorcycle; those who have actually done it & felt the rush of pleasure that goes along with zooming off; or those who just like to read about people having wild, life-expanding adventures; & finally the many readers intrigued by this fascinating, important part of modern American culture. ...

Lived in London is a comprehensive & beautifully produced title from English Heritage about the capital’s 800 blue plaques & the stories behind them. Illustrated with an array of historical & contemporary images & photographs, & arranged geographically by borough & area, it is the first guide to be published on the blue plaques for over half a century & has been compiled with the aid of official local government & English Heritage’s own archive files. London’s blue plaques scheme, founded in 1866, is the oldest in the world & was originally envisaged as a means of making ‘our houses their own biographers’, aiming to commemorate the link between notable national figures & the buildings in which they lived & worked. Lived in London is a glossy & informative introduction to the many people & buildings honoured under the scheme, as well as the cultural tradition of the blue plaques. ...

Map No. 108, Liverpool, in the Ordnance Survey Landranger series at 1:50, 000, including Wallasey, Birkenhead, West Kirby, Bebington, Heswall, Runcorn, Hale, Widnes, Prescot, Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, Bootle, Kirkby, Crosby, Maghull, Rainford, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan, Skelmersdale, Lydiate, Formby, Ormskirk, Parbold, Standish, Mawdesley, Burscough, Rufford, Croston, Chorley & Southport, with the Mersey Estuary & Hilbre Islands. Edition E1; Publication date: April 2010 This title is also available on our website in a waterproof & tear-resistant version. Maps in this series are only published folded. Stanfords can also print flat versions of Ordnance Survey maps through the OS Select system, centring the map on a location of your choice & with a picture provided by you on the cover. For more information please click on the link at the bottom of this description. About Ordnance Survey ...